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9. D. TOWNE. HARVBSTER REEL.

No. 408,999. Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

N. PETERS. PhMmLilhcgmpher, Washington, DJ;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES D. TOI VNE, OF GALESBURG, MICHIGAN.

HARVESTER-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,999, dated August 13, 1889.

Application filed February 1, 1889. Serial No. 298,370. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES D. TOWNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Galesbnrg, county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Harvester-Reel, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the construction of a strong and simple reel, or, more properly, an .apparatus to perform the office of a reel, in corn-harvesters, and which may be employed in other harvesting-machines, all more fully described below.

In the drawings forming apart of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2, an elevation of parts lookingfrom a point at the right of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, an equivalent change from Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a detail in elevation of lettered parts in Fig. 1, looking from a point below said figure.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, Bis a crank-shaft having bearings in the standards D I) at the rear of the platform, which platform receives the stalks of corn as they fall when out by the sickle or cutting-knives at the forward side of the platform. The shaft B has two cranks, one at or near each end, as at S S. These cranks are on the same plane, but thrown out from the shaft in opposite directions to each other, Fig. 2.

Pivotally connected with each crank is a right-angled arm 0 a, the part 0 of said arms being at right angles to the shaft B and extending well forward of the shaft, and the part abeing at right angles to the parts 0, said parts a (t lapping by each other over the platform in plan View, as in Fig. 1.

Between the forward ends of the parts 0 and the rear ends attached to the cranks S the arms are fulcruined to the top of the standards 6, and these standards are pivoted at the base to the platform, or to a post on the platform, as at E, Fig. 2. Thus the stand.-

ards c e are oscillating standards.

In the operation, referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the forwardmost arm has struck into the corn or whatever is being cut, and as the crankshaft continues to revolve toward the rear the corn is drawn toward the sickle and onto the table. lVhile this act-ion is taking place the other arm is rising and will be carried forward and down into the corn in advance of the sickle. Thus by means of the crankshaft and the oscillating standards in the relation set forth the arms alternate in their like operations.

In Fig. 4, the arm a C at the elbowis braced by brace ct.

In Fig. 3 the construction is just the same as in Fig. 2, except the points of the attachment of the standard 6 and crank S with. the arm 0 are changed places with, and this change may be effected if desired and accomplish the same results.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination of the platform, the crank shaft having bearing-supports on said platform, and having a crank at or near each end, which cranks are thrown out in opposite directions from the shaft, the right-angled arms, one pivoted to each of said cranks, and their forward angles extending toward each other and lapping one by the other in plan View, and the upright oscillating standards pivoted at their lower ends to the platform and at their upper ends to the right-angled arms, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES D. TOVNE.

Witnesses: 4

L. L. BENsoN, E. B. DAY. 

